Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080098304
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| Summary / Description | Messages are displayed on a wireless device, where the messages are updated at the beginning of a specified time period or in response to a specified event |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
| Country | United States of America |
| Patent/Application # | 7251476 |
| Kind Code | United States (US) - Reexamination Certificate Seco... - B2 |
| Patentee Name | Mark L. Cortegiano |
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| URL | http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/... |
| Filing Date | November 1, 2004 |
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Excerpt
Excerpt The present invention relates to a method for displaying messages, such as advertisements, on digital wireless communication devices, such as digital cellular telephones, comprising the steps of creating at least one visual advertising message in the form of an information file for display on a digital wireless communication device, valuating the at least one advertising message, transmitting the at least one advertising message to a database, wherein the database is in communication with the wireless communication device via a wireless communications network or system, such as a cellular telephone network, transmitting according to a predetermined schedule the at least one advertising message from the database via the wireless communication system to the wireless communication device, wherein the wireless communication device chosen for reception of the at least one advertising message contains necessary software for displaying the advertising message and a display, recording the date and time the at least one wireless communication device receives the at least one advertising message, displaying the at least one advertising message on the digital wireless communication device such that the display does not interfere with the operation of the digital wireless communication device, and applying the valuation of the at least one advertising message as credit to a user account associated with the digital wireless communication device. |
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Claims
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A method implemented on a first computing device having a display, the first computing device associated with a user, the method comprising:
according to a schedule, prompting for a first input from the user;
responding to the first input from the user by instructing an application on the first computing device to play a first media file; and
responding to a second input from the user by making an entry in a play history database.
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Cortegiano discloses displaying messages at the beginning of a specified time period.
Cortegiano discloses displaying messages at the beginning of a specified time period.
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The method of Claim 1 where the media files are one of audio files and video files.
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Cortegiano discloses displaying information in "at least one of an audio form and a visual form"
Cortegiano discloses displaying information in "at least one of an audio form and a visual form"
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